This document discusses industrial occupational safety and health innovation for sustainable development. It argues that previous research on sustainable development pillars neglected factors like culture, politics, and technology. The document aims to focus on how workplace safety and health innovation can lead to sustainable development by considering these additional pillars. It also examines how innovation in occupational safety and health can lead to outcomes like healthier workers, safer workplaces, reduced accident costs, and improved safety knowledge that contribute to sustainable development.
triple bottom line accounting on financial performance of quoted industrial g...ijtsrd
This study examines Triple Bottom Line Accounting on Financial Performance of Quoted Industrial Goods Production firms in Nigeria. The sample comprises of 11 manufacturing firms Quoted on the Nigerian stock exchange NSE , covering the period of 2013 to 2017 five years. The combination of 11 firms for a five years period provides a balanced panel of observations for analysis using a cross sectional and ex post facto research design. Triple Bottom Line Accounting measures, are Economic cost, Social cost, and Environmental cost. Financial Performance measure was Market Value Per Share. The postulated hypotheses were tested, using ordinary least square method of Multiple Regression Analysis. The empirical results states that, the r squared of 0.38 suggest that our regression model, which regressed Triple Bottom Line Accounting indicators on Financial Performance of Quoted Industrial Goods Production Firms in Nigeria is well fitted. The outcome is 38 and the probability value of f statistics is significant at 1 supporting the credibility of the regression equation. This shows the ability of the selected explanatory variables to predict the changes that occur in Financial Performance of quoted industrial goods production firms in Nigeria. Based on the above findings, we recommend that, regulatory authorities, such as the Financial Reporting Council FRC , Nigeria Stock Exchange NSE and Securities and Exchange Commission SEC to issue out necessary compliance directives and improve their compliance monitoring mechanisms to ensure a reasonable level of compliance by all companies to present their account reports in compliance with triple bottom line accounting pattern. Laime Isaac Odogu | Pereowei Anderson Obalakumo | Timinipre Joseph Okpobo "Triple Bottom Line Accounting on Financial Performance of Quoted Industrial Goods Firms in Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-5 , August 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31844.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/accounting-and-finance/31844/triple-bottom-line-accounting-on-financial-performance-of-quoted-industrial-goods-firms-in-nigeria/laime-isaac-odogu
This document provides information about the upcoming 32nd annual conference of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) that will take place in Manchester, UK in 2016. The conference theme is "Construction Work and the Worker?" and will explore how technological and social changes have transformed construction work and workers. It lists important conference dates and calls for papers on this theme or related topics like project management, health and safety, sustainability, and more. Papers will be peer-reviewed and presented at the conference, with proceedings published afterwards. The document also describes 9 thematic tracks for submissions in more specialized areas like BIM, organizational studies, extreme weather, and sustainable construction.
This paper argues that sustainable industrial systems depends on only on good environmental and public health outcomes but also on adequate employment and earning capacity in a well-functioning and equitable economic system.
This document summarizes a study on the factors affecting productivity in terry towel manufacturing textile industries in Solapur, India. Through a survey of 164 textile SMEs, the study identified 8 key factors affecting productivity: 1) organizational structure and management commitment, 2) quality of inputs and processes, 3) employee training and motivation, 4) occupational health and safety, 5) manufacturing and dyeing processes, 6) use of renewable energy, 7) labor absenteeism and carelessness. The study used statistical analysis methods like factor analysis, reliability testing, and validity testing to identify these 8 factors from an initial list of 39 variables considered relevant based on literature review.
This study reviews literature on occupational safety and health from 1985 to 2013 to identify gaps and changes over time. It focuses on examining the findings and conclusions of individual studies as well as summarizing collective results on how occupational safety and health has fluctuated and impacted workplaces and humans. The review provides insight into occupational safety and health developments in both developed and developing countries. It analyzed 60 peer-reviewed articles and publications focusing on construction and small-to-medium enterprises in Ethiopia. The study concluded there were commonalities and differences among existing studies and identified overlooked areas to inform future research directions.
This document is the proceedings of the first Afro-Ueropean Conference for Industrial Advancements held in 2014. It contains research presented at the conference and is published in volume 334 of the conference series. The document includes relevant identification numbers to cite the work and was published in Switzerland in 2015.
2015 lean phlosophy for global competitivenses in ethiopian chemical Kassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses lean philosophy and its potential application to improve competitiveness in Ethiopia's chemical industries. It begins with an overview of lean manufacturing principles and tools, noting they aim to eliminate waste and non-value-added activities. It then reviews challenges facing development of Ethiopia's chemical industries, which currently contribute little to GDP. To address this, the document argues lean thinking could help chemical manufacturers increase productivity and efficiency while reducing costs. Full implementation would require commitment from both industry and support institutions.
triple bottom line accounting on financial performance of quoted industrial g...ijtsrd
This study examines Triple Bottom Line Accounting on Financial Performance of Quoted Industrial Goods Production firms in Nigeria. The sample comprises of 11 manufacturing firms Quoted on the Nigerian stock exchange NSE , covering the period of 2013 to 2017 five years. The combination of 11 firms for a five years period provides a balanced panel of observations for analysis using a cross sectional and ex post facto research design. Triple Bottom Line Accounting measures, are Economic cost, Social cost, and Environmental cost. Financial Performance measure was Market Value Per Share. The postulated hypotheses were tested, using ordinary least square method of Multiple Regression Analysis. The empirical results states that, the r squared of 0.38 suggest that our regression model, which regressed Triple Bottom Line Accounting indicators on Financial Performance of Quoted Industrial Goods Production Firms in Nigeria is well fitted. The outcome is 38 and the probability value of f statistics is significant at 1 supporting the credibility of the regression equation. This shows the ability of the selected explanatory variables to predict the changes that occur in Financial Performance of quoted industrial goods production firms in Nigeria. Based on the above findings, we recommend that, regulatory authorities, such as the Financial Reporting Council FRC , Nigeria Stock Exchange NSE and Securities and Exchange Commission SEC to issue out necessary compliance directives and improve their compliance monitoring mechanisms to ensure a reasonable level of compliance by all companies to present their account reports in compliance with triple bottom line accounting pattern. Laime Isaac Odogu | Pereowei Anderson Obalakumo | Timinipre Joseph Okpobo "Triple Bottom Line Accounting on Financial Performance of Quoted Industrial Goods Firms in Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-5 , August 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31844.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/accounting-and-finance/31844/triple-bottom-line-accounting-on-financial-performance-of-quoted-industrial-goods-firms-in-nigeria/laime-isaac-odogu
This document provides information about the upcoming 32nd annual conference of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) that will take place in Manchester, UK in 2016. The conference theme is "Construction Work and the Worker?" and will explore how technological and social changes have transformed construction work and workers. It lists important conference dates and calls for papers on this theme or related topics like project management, health and safety, sustainability, and more. Papers will be peer-reviewed and presented at the conference, with proceedings published afterwards. The document also describes 9 thematic tracks for submissions in more specialized areas like BIM, organizational studies, extreme weather, and sustainable construction.
This paper argues that sustainable industrial systems depends on only on good environmental and public health outcomes but also on adequate employment and earning capacity in a well-functioning and equitable economic system.
This document summarizes a study on the factors affecting productivity in terry towel manufacturing textile industries in Solapur, India. Through a survey of 164 textile SMEs, the study identified 8 key factors affecting productivity: 1) organizational structure and management commitment, 2) quality of inputs and processes, 3) employee training and motivation, 4) occupational health and safety, 5) manufacturing and dyeing processes, 6) use of renewable energy, 7) labor absenteeism and carelessness. The study used statistical analysis methods like factor analysis, reliability testing, and validity testing to identify these 8 factors from an initial list of 39 variables considered relevant based on literature review.
This study reviews literature on occupational safety and health from 1985 to 2013 to identify gaps and changes over time. It focuses on examining the findings and conclusions of individual studies as well as summarizing collective results on how occupational safety and health has fluctuated and impacted workplaces and humans. The review provides insight into occupational safety and health developments in both developed and developing countries. It analyzed 60 peer-reviewed articles and publications focusing on construction and small-to-medium enterprises in Ethiopia. The study concluded there were commonalities and differences among existing studies and identified overlooked areas to inform future research directions.
This document is the proceedings of the first Afro-Ueropean Conference for Industrial Advancements held in 2014. It contains research presented at the conference and is published in volume 334 of the conference series. The document includes relevant identification numbers to cite the work and was published in Switzerland in 2015.
2015 lean phlosophy for global competitivenses in ethiopian chemical Kassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses lean philosophy and its potential application to improve competitiveness in Ethiopia's chemical industries. It begins with an overview of lean manufacturing principles and tools, noting they aim to eliminate waste and non-value-added activities. It then reviews challenges facing development of Ethiopia's chemical industries, which currently contribute little to GDP. To address this, the document argues lean thinking could help chemical manufacturers increase productivity and efficiency while reducing costs. Full implementation would require commitment from both industry and support institutions.
This document provides a literature review on global occupational safety and health practices and the severity of accidents. It discusses the following key points in 3 sentences:
The literature review identifies existing gaps in previous workplace safety and health management research and proposes areas for future study. Many studies have found that risks to occupational safety and health are increasing globally due to industrialization, but developing countries often overlook workplace safety in their economic policies. The review finds gaps in developing multilevel safety models, knowledge transfer mechanisms, and approaches that consider multiple health factors, and suggests these areas need further research to improve workplace safety and health management.
This paper investigates how lean thinking can improve occupational safety and health in manufacturing industries. It discusses how developing countries are expanding their manufacturing industries through technology transfer but often neglect workplace safety, resulting in lost productivity from accidents, absenteeism, and equipment damage. Using literature reviews and safety data from Ethiopian industries, the paper finds little consideration of lean safety practices. Data on Ethiopian industries show over 1,600 accidents in 2012, costing over 11,000 lost workdays. The paper concludes lean tools like 5S can help reduce these costs by improving safety culture and hazard management.
This document is the proceedings of the first Afro-Ueropean Conference for Industrial Advancements held in 2014. It contains research presented at the conference and is published in volume 334 of the conference series. The document includes information about its digital object identifier, library of congress control number, and publisher.
2014 the plandocheckact-cycle-of-value-addition-2169-0316.1000124Kassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses a research article that proposes extending the concept of continuous process improvement beyond manufacturing using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. The article seeks to identify functions involved in the value addition process and categorize them into the four phases of the PDCA cycle. It identifies six core functions in value addition: research and innovation, design, manufacturing, assembly, packaging, and quality control/inspection. These are divided into three phases - pre-production (research and design), in-production (manufacturing, assembly and packaging), and post-production (quality control). The article argues this model can help evaluate and continuously improve value addition by considering the roles of all relevant functions through the PDCA framework
2016 book published road accidents and safety from addis ababa to hawassaKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document provides acknowledgements and thanks to various individuals and organizations that assisted with the author's dissertation work. It thanks advisors, colleagues, family members, and the Ethiopian Transport Authority for their guidance and support throughout the dissertation process. It also acknowledges the author's wife for helping to edit and compile the paper. The abstract then introduces that the paper will discuss the growing problem of road traffic accidents on roads from Gelan to Tukurwuha in Ethiopia, and will analyze causes, risks, interventions, and potential solutions.
This document summarizes a research paper that investigates minimizing the makespan of a job shop production system at Dejena Aviation Industry using a shifting bottleneck heuristic algorithm. The paper analyzes production data from 5 machines and 5 jobs. It finds that applying the shifting bottleneck algorithm reduces the total makespan by 8.33%. Machine 1 and 3 are the least utilized at 41% and 36% respectively, while machine 3 and 5 are the busiest at 64% and 59%. The algorithm iteratively identifies bottleneck machines and reschedules jobs to minimize the maximum lateness time and reduce the makespan.
2015 workers and machine performance modeling in manufacturingKassu Jilcha (PhD)
The document describes a simulation study of workers and machine performance in an Ethiopian plastics industry. An Arena simulation model was developed to model the production processes and determine throughput, waiting times, and potential bottlenecks. The model included three submodels for worker distribution, continuous extrusion, and injection molding. Data was collected from the factory and fitted to distributions. The model was verified and validated. Simulation results identified bottlenecks and low throughput due to worker and machine performance issues. Recommendations were made to address bottlenecks and improve performance.
2017 knowledge diffusion to workplace safety and health improvementKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses knowledge diffusion as it relates to improving workplace safety and health. It identifies several challenges in developing countries like workplace hazards, high costs, lost productivity, and lack of management awareness. The key cause of these challenges is the lack of awareness about preventing workplace safety hazards. The paper then discusses how knowledge diffusion through a conceptual model could help address these issues by improving policy, knowledge dissemination, implementation, evaluation and impact. It argues that knowledge diffusion is important for developing economies to improve workplace safety and awareness.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document summarizes a research paper on the influence of workplace innovation on occupational safety and health. The paper finds that while workplace innovation has been shown to significantly impact workplace safety and health, this area has been under-researched. Through a literature review, the paper identifies gaps in research on how non-technical innovations like changes to workplace organization, layout, policies and training can affect occupational safety and health. The research aims to address these gaps and better define the relationships between innovation and factors influencing workplace safety.
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This paper investigates how lean thinking can improve occupational safety and health in manufacturing industries. It discusses how developing countries are expanding their manufacturing industries through technology transfer but often neglect workplace safety, resulting in lost productivity from accidents, absenteeism, and equipment damage. The paper reviews literature showing little attention to lean safety practices. It also analyzes illustrative safety data from Ethiopian manufacturing that revealed over 1,600 accidents in 2012, costing over 11,000 lost work days. This suggests Ethiopian companies are unaware of how lean tools like 5S can reduce these costs. The study concludes lean occupational safety and health approaches can help manufacturing industries cut non-value-added waste from improved safety management.
2017 knowledge diffusion to workplace safety and health improvementKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses knowledge diffusion as it relates to improving workplace safety and health. It identifies several challenges in developing countries like workplace hazards, high costs, lost productivity, and lack of management awareness. The key cause of these challenges is the lack of awareness about preventing workplace safety hazards. The paper then discusses how knowledge diffusion through a conceptual model could help address these issues by improving policy, knowledge dissemination, implementation, evaluation and impact. It argues that knowledge diffusion is important for developing economies to improve workplace safety and awareness.
Workers' health and safety is an important asset , it enhances the productivity, efficiency, quality of every industry if well maintained. Construction material producer are vital industries from where supplying the demand of emerging construction materials to infrastructure and habitat projects as per projects' need. These industries employing lot of workers but they are not being worry about health and safety. Different convention of ILO as well as WHO have emphasizes to respond the issues related workers health and safety. Nepal had not yet ratified ILO convention No. 155 on occupational safety and health. Therefore lot of death, fatalities are suffered due to health and safety. It is important asset of workers that must be taken seriously by all stake holders as well as the nation. To make civilize society, all should be aware about every one's health and safety that too, workers health of safety is very important issues in every industry.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses workplace innovation and its influence on occupational safety and health. It reviews literature on the topics of workplace innovation, innovation approaches, and workplace safety. The literature shows that workplace innovation has been neglected in research despite its significance for workplace safety and health. Workplace innovation involves new interventions in work organization, human resource management, and supportive technologies. However, most innovation research focuses only on new product development. The review found gaps in considering workplace innovation's impact on occupational safety and health, indicating a need for further research on this relationship.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses workplace innovation and its influence on occupational safety and health. It reviews literature on the topics of workplace innovation, innovation approaches, and workplace safety. The key findings are:
1) Workplace innovation has been neglected in research despite its significance for workplace safety and health. It involves interventions in work organization, human resource management, and supportive technologies.
2) Existing research focuses mainly on technical innovation like new product development, rather than non-technical or workplace innovation.
3) There are gaps in defining and researching the impacts of workplace innovation, such as changes to workplace organization, layout, policies, and training, on occupational safety and health outcomes.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses workplace innovation and its influence on occupational safety and health. It reviews literature on the topics of workplace innovation, innovation approaches, and workplace safety. The literature shows that workplace innovation has been neglected in research despite its significance for workplace safety and health. Workplace innovation involves new interventions in work organization, human resource management, and supportive technologies. However, most innovation research focuses only on new product development. The review found gaps in considering workplace innovation's impact on occupational safety and health, indicating a need for further research on this relationship.
A LITERATURE REVIEW ON GLOBAL OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH PRACTICE ACCID...Justin Knight
This document provides a literature review on global occupational safety and health practices and the severity of accidents. It discusses the following key points in 3 sentences:
The literature review identifies existing gaps in previous workplace safety and health management research and proposes areas for future study. Many studies have found that risks to occupational safety and health are increasing globally due to industrialization, but developing countries often overlook workplace safety in their economic policies. The review finds gaps in developing multilevel safety models, knowledge transfer mechanisms, and approaches that consider multiple health factors, and suggests these areas need further research to improve workplace safety and health management.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) ijceronline
This document discusses promoting a culture of health and safety in cement plants. It notes that safety should be a top priority for any industrial activity. The document analyzes causes of work accidents recorded at 7 cement plants, such as lack of experience, communication, and safety practices. The goal is to promote a health and safety culture and reduce accidents by raising awareness, providing information and training, and establishing clear safety policies. A 7-stage methodology is proposed that includes assessing risks, developing prevention actions, and evaluating results to engage all staff and continuously improve health and safety.
Evaluation of the level of Job Safety in some selected Organizations in Kampa...PUBLISHERJOURNAL
Evaluation of the level of Job Safety in some selected Organizations in Kampala, Uganda.
1Mary Tunde Nalubega, 2Tom Mulegi and 1Eleanor Kirahora Barongo
1Department of Development Peace and Conflict studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kampala International University.
2Department of Public Administration, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kampala International University.
________________________________________
ABSTRACT
This research evaluated the level of job safety in some selected organizations in Kampala, Uganda. The study objective was achieved through descriptive, Cross sectional and correlative survey designs. A study population of 484 was used, from which a sample population of 219 respondents was derived using Slovene’s Formula. Data was collected primarily using Self-Administered Questionnaires (SAQs) and structured Interviews. Findings revealed that the level of job safety in selected Public and Private Organizations in Kampala, Uganda was high with (mean = 2.97); implying that private and public organizations in Uganda have high levels of job safety in terms of electronic and fire safety, sanitation, tools and equipment and protection from hazardous materials. Comparatively, sanitation ranked highest among all elements of job safety, in terms of whether food is separated from hazardous materials with (mean = 3.46, std. dev =.720) interpreted as very• high. The last ranked item was about whether smoke detectors function properly with (mean = 2.44, std. dev = 1.062) interpreted as high. In conclusion, the level of job safety among Public and Private organizations in Kampala, Uganda was high. This means that private and public organizations in Uganda have high levels of job safety in terms of electronic and fire safety, sanitation, tools and equipment and protection from hazardous materials. This study recommends that different stakeholders including government and Non-governmental Organizations need to put in place mechanisms to ensure that employees are protected from work. The government should put in place laws aiming at protecting workers against health issues associated with work related Hazards.
Keywords: Job Safety, selected, public and private Organizations.
This document provides an overview of fundamental principles of occupational health and safety. It discusses the ILO's response to unacceptable occupational hazards and risks around the world. Major ILO instruments that establish core OSH principles are described, including conventions and recommendations. Key principles like rights and duties of workers, employers and governments are also covered. The document aims to serve as a guide for developing national OSH policies and programs.
This document provides a literature review on global occupational safety and health practices and the severity of accidents. It discusses the following key points in 3 sentences:
The literature review identifies existing gaps in previous workplace safety and health management research and proposes areas for future study. Many studies have found that risks to occupational safety and health are increasing globally due to industrialization, but developing countries often overlook workplace safety in their economic policies. The review finds gaps in developing multilevel safety models, knowledge transfer mechanisms, and approaches that consider multiple health factors, and suggests these areas need further research to improve workplace safety and health management.
This paper investigates how lean thinking can improve occupational safety and health in manufacturing industries. It discusses how developing countries are expanding their manufacturing industries through technology transfer but often neglect workplace safety, resulting in lost productivity from accidents, absenteeism, and equipment damage. Using literature reviews and safety data from Ethiopian industries, the paper finds little consideration of lean safety practices. Data on Ethiopian industries show over 1,600 accidents in 2012, costing over 11,000 lost workdays. The paper concludes lean tools like 5S can help reduce these costs by improving safety culture and hazard management.
This document is the proceedings of the first Afro-Ueropean Conference for Industrial Advancements held in 2014. It contains research presented at the conference and is published in volume 334 of the conference series. The document includes information about its digital object identifier, library of congress control number, and publisher.
2014 the plandocheckact-cycle-of-value-addition-2169-0316.1000124Kassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses a research article that proposes extending the concept of continuous process improvement beyond manufacturing using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. The article seeks to identify functions involved in the value addition process and categorize them into the four phases of the PDCA cycle. It identifies six core functions in value addition: research and innovation, design, manufacturing, assembly, packaging, and quality control/inspection. These are divided into three phases - pre-production (research and design), in-production (manufacturing, assembly and packaging), and post-production (quality control). The article argues this model can help evaluate and continuously improve value addition by considering the roles of all relevant functions through the PDCA framework
2016 book published road accidents and safety from addis ababa to hawassaKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document provides acknowledgements and thanks to various individuals and organizations that assisted with the author's dissertation work. It thanks advisors, colleagues, family members, and the Ethiopian Transport Authority for their guidance and support throughout the dissertation process. It also acknowledges the author's wife for helping to edit and compile the paper. The abstract then introduces that the paper will discuss the growing problem of road traffic accidents on roads from Gelan to Tukurwuha in Ethiopia, and will analyze causes, risks, interventions, and potential solutions.
This document summarizes a research paper that investigates minimizing the makespan of a job shop production system at Dejena Aviation Industry using a shifting bottleneck heuristic algorithm. The paper analyzes production data from 5 machines and 5 jobs. It finds that applying the shifting bottleneck algorithm reduces the total makespan by 8.33%. Machine 1 and 3 are the least utilized at 41% and 36% respectively, while machine 3 and 5 are the busiest at 64% and 59%. The algorithm iteratively identifies bottleneck machines and reschedules jobs to minimize the maximum lateness time and reduce the makespan.
2015 workers and machine performance modeling in manufacturingKassu Jilcha (PhD)
The document describes a simulation study of workers and machine performance in an Ethiopian plastics industry. An Arena simulation model was developed to model the production processes and determine throughput, waiting times, and potential bottlenecks. The model included three submodels for worker distribution, continuous extrusion, and injection molding. Data was collected from the factory and fitted to distributions. The model was verified and validated. Simulation results identified bottlenecks and low throughput due to worker and machine performance issues. Recommendations were made to address bottlenecks and improve performance.
2017 knowledge diffusion to workplace safety and health improvementKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses knowledge diffusion as it relates to improving workplace safety and health. It identifies several challenges in developing countries like workplace hazards, high costs, lost productivity, and lack of management awareness. The key cause of these challenges is the lack of awareness about preventing workplace safety hazards. The paper then discusses how knowledge diffusion through a conceptual model could help address these issues by improving policy, knowledge dissemination, implementation, evaluation and impact. It argues that knowledge diffusion is important for developing economies to improve workplace safety and awareness.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document summarizes a research paper on the influence of workplace innovation on occupational safety and health. The paper finds that while workplace innovation has been shown to significantly impact workplace safety and health, this area has been under-researched. Through a literature review, the paper identifies gaps in research on how non-technical innovations like changes to workplace organization, layout, policies and training can affect occupational safety and health. The research aims to address these gaps and better define the relationships between innovation and factors influencing workplace safety.
Each month, join us as we highlight and discuss hot topics ranging from the future of higher education to wearable technology, best productivity hacks and secrets to hiring top talent. Upload your SlideShares, and share your expertise with the world!
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SlideShares that inform, inspire and educate attract the most views. Beyond that, ideas for what you can upload are limitless. We’ve selected a few popular examples to get your creative juices flowing.
SlideShare is a global platform for sharing presentations, infographics, videos and documents. It has over 18 million pieces of professional content uploaded by experts like Eric Schmidt and Guy Kawasaki. The document provides tips for setting up an account on SlideShare, uploading content, optimizing it for searchability, and sharing it on social media to build an audience and reputation as a subject matter expert.
This paper investigates how lean thinking can improve occupational safety and health in manufacturing industries. It discusses how developing countries are expanding their manufacturing industries through technology transfer but often neglect workplace safety, resulting in lost productivity from accidents, absenteeism, and equipment damage. The paper reviews literature showing little attention to lean safety practices. It also analyzes illustrative safety data from Ethiopian manufacturing that revealed over 1,600 accidents in 2012, costing over 11,000 lost work days. This suggests Ethiopian companies are unaware of how lean tools like 5S can reduce these costs. The study concludes lean occupational safety and health approaches can help manufacturing industries cut non-value-added waste from improved safety management.
2017 knowledge diffusion to workplace safety and health improvementKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses knowledge diffusion as it relates to improving workplace safety and health. It identifies several challenges in developing countries like workplace hazards, high costs, lost productivity, and lack of management awareness. The key cause of these challenges is the lack of awareness about preventing workplace safety hazards. The paper then discusses how knowledge diffusion through a conceptual model could help address these issues by improving policy, knowledge dissemination, implementation, evaluation and impact. It argues that knowledge diffusion is important for developing economies to improve workplace safety and awareness.
Workers' health and safety is an important asset , it enhances the productivity, efficiency, quality of every industry if well maintained. Construction material producer are vital industries from where supplying the demand of emerging construction materials to infrastructure and habitat projects as per projects' need. These industries employing lot of workers but they are not being worry about health and safety. Different convention of ILO as well as WHO have emphasizes to respond the issues related workers health and safety. Nepal had not yet ratified ILO convention No. 155 on occupational safety and health. Therefore lot of death, fatalities are suffered due to health and safety. It is important asset of workers that must be taken seriously by all stake holders as well as the nation. To make civilize society, all should be aware about every one's health and safety that too, workers health of safety is very important issues in every industry.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses workplace innovation and its influence on occupational safety and health. It reviews literature on the topics of workplace innovation, innovation approaches, and workplace safety. The literature shows that workplace innovation has been neglected in research despite its significance for workplace safety and health. Workplace innovation involves new interventions in work organization, human resource management, and supportive technologies. However, most innovation research focuses only on new product development. The review found gaps in considering workplace innovation's impact on occupational safety and health, indicating a need for further research on this relationship.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses workplace innovation and its influence on occupational safety and health. It reviews literature on the topics of workplace innovation, innovation approaches, and workplace safety. The key findings are:
1) Workplace innovation has been neglected in research despite its significance for workplace safety and health. It involves interventions in work organization, human resource management, and supportive technologies.
2) Existing research focuses mainly on technical innovation like new product development, rather than non-technical or workplace innovation.
3) There are gaps in defining and researching the impacts of workplace innovation, such as changes to workplace organization, layout, policies, and training, on occupational safety and health outcomes.
2016 workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and healthKassu Jilcha (PhD)
This document discusses workplace innovation and its influence on occupational safety and health. It reviews literature on the topics of workplace innovation, innovation approaches, and workplace safety. The literature shows that workplace innovation has been neglected in research despite its significance for workplace safety and health. Workplace innovation involves new interventions in work organization, human resource management, and supportive technologies. However, most innovation research focuses only on new product development. The review found gaps in considering workplace innovation's impact on occupational safety and health, indicating a need for further research on this relationship.
A LITERATURE REVIEW ON GLOBAL OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH PRACTICE ACCID...Justin Knight
This document provides a literature review on global occupational safety and health practices and the severity of accidents. It discusses the following key points in 3 sentences:
The literature review identifies existing gaps in previous workplace safety and health management research and proposes areas for future study. Many studies have found that risks to occupational safety and health are increasing globally due to industrialization, but developing countries often overlook workplace safety in their economic policies. The review finds gaps in developing multilevel safety models, knowledge transfer mechanisms, and approaches that consider multiple health factors, and suggests these areas need further research to improve workplace safety and health management.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) ijceronline
This document discusses promoting a culture of health and safety in cement plants. It notes that safety should be a top priority for any industrial activity. The document analyzes causes of work accidents recorded at 7 cement plants, such as lack of experience, communication, and safety practices. The goal is to promote a health and safety culture and reduce accidents by raising awareness, providing information and training, and establishing clear safety policies. A 7-stage methodology is proposed that includes assessing risks, developing prevention actions, and evaluating results to engage all staff and continuously improve health and safety.
Evaluation of the level of Job Safety in some selected Organizations in Kampa...PUBLISHERJOURNAL
Evaluation of the level of Job Safety in some selected Organizations in Kampala, Uganda.
1Mary Tunde Nalubega, 2Tom Mulegi and 1Eleanor Kirahora Barongo
1Department of Development Peace and Conflict studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kampala International University.
2Department of Public Administration, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kampala International University.
________________________________________
ABSTRACT
This research evaluated the level of job safety in some selected organizations in Kampala, Uganda. The study objective was achieved through descriptive, Cross sectional and correlative survey designs. A study population of 484 was used, from which a sample population of 219 respondents was derived using Slovene’s Formula. Data was collected primarily using Self-Administered Questionnaires (SAQs) and structured Interviews. Findings revealed that the level of job safety in selected Public and Private Organizations in Kampala, Uganda was high with (mean = 2.97); implying that private and public organizations in Uganda have high levels of job safety in terms of electronic and fire safety, sanitation, tools and equipment and protection from hazardous materials. Comparatively, sanitation ranked highest among all elements of job safety, in terms of whether food is separated from hazardous materials with (mean = 3.46, std. dev =.720) interpreted as very• high. The last ranked item was about whether smoke detectors function properly with (mean = 2.44, std. dev = 1.062) interpreted as high. In conclusion, the level of job safety among Public and Private organizations in Kampala, Uganda was high. This means that private and public organizations in Uganda have high levels of job safety in terms of electronic and fire safety, sanitation, tools and equipment and protection from hazardous materials. This study recommends that different stakeholders including government and Non-governmental Organizations need to put in place mechanisms to ensure that employees are protected from work. The government should put in place laws aiming at protecting workers against health issues associated with work related Hazards.
Keywords: Job Safety, selected, public and private Organizations.
This document provides an overview of fundamental principles of occupational health and safety. It discusses the ILO's response to unacceptable occupational hazards and risks around the world. Major ILO instruments that establish core OSH principles are described, including conventions and recommendations. Key principles like rights and duties of workers, employers and governments are also covered. The document aims to serve as a guide for developing national OSH policies and programs.
Occupational safety and health (OSH) is generally defined as the science of the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards arising in or from the workplace that could impair the health and well-being of workers, taking into account the possible impact on the surrounding communities and the general environment. This domain is necessarily vast, encompassing a large number of disciplines and numerous workplace and environmental hazards. A wide range of structures, skills, knowledge and analytical capacities are needed to coordinate and implement all of the “building blocks” that make up national OSH systems so that protection is extended to both workers and the environment.
Occupational safety and health (OSH) is generally defined as the science of the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards arising in or from the workplace that could impair the health and well-being of workers, taking into account the possible impact on the surrounding communities and the general environment. This domain is necessarily vast, encompassing a large number of disciplines and numerous workplace and environmental hazards. A wide range of structures, skills, knowledge and analytical capacities are needed
to coordinate and implement all of the “building blocks” that make up national OSH systems so that protection is extended to both workers and the environment.
This document summarizes a study that assessed and compared the safety cultures of two petrochemical plants in Algeria. A survey was distributed to employees at both plants to evaluate factors of safety culture and safety performance. The results showed that Plant A, managed by British and Norwegian leaders, had higher safety culture maturity and better safety performance than Plant B, as evidenced by lower accident rates. Specifically, Plant B needed most improvement in managers' commitment, training, incentives, communication, and employee involvement. Overall, the study confirms a relationship between strong safety culture and positive safety outcomes in high-risk industries like petrochemical facilities.
The document discusses challenges in promoting an effective prevention culture for social security worldwide. It argues that a new, integrated approach to prevention is needed that reduces workplace risks, promotes health and employability, and includes individual factors. The International Social Security Association (ISSA) advocates a holistic, 3-dimensional approach including work and non-work factors. The ISSA is working to promote a global culture of prevention through guidelines, standards, capacity building and recognition programs for social security administrations.
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This document discusses the health effects of hydraulic fracturing on employees, surrounding communities, and the environment. It examines relevant literature from the disciplines of human resource development and organizational leadership to understand how fracturing has impacted worker health and safety, and what industry leaders are doing to address issues. Studies have found harmful exposure to crystalline silica dust for certain job roles, increasing risks of lung diseases. Air emissions from sites also pose health risks to nearby residents. The document concludes that while fracturing provides benefits, more must be done to protect workers, communities, and the environment from its negative impacts.
This document discusses the need for a new, integrated approach to prevention in the context of global challenges to workers' health and safety. It argues that traditional risk-focused prevention measures alone are no longer sufficient, and a holistic, person-centered approach is needed that considers both occupational and non-occupational factors influencing individual well-being. The International Social Security Association is well-positioned to promote such a culture of prevention among its members by providing guidelines, training, and support for more comprehensive prevention practices.
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2016 industrial occupational safety and health innovation for sustainable development
1. Full Length Article
Industrial occupational safety and health innovation for sustainable
development
Kassu Jilcha a,⇑
, Daniel Kitaw b
a
Mechanical Engineering department, Kombolcha Institute of Technology, Wollo University, Kombolcha, Ethiopia
b
Industrial Engineering Chair, School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 31 August 2016
Revised 24 September 2016
Accepted 22 October 2016
Available online xxxx
Keywords:
Safety and health
Innovation
Pillars
Workplace
Sustainable development
a b s t r a c t
Sustainable development is not thought in a box without development pillars. Previous researchers put
these pillars as economy, social and environment. Upon improving these three pillars, sustainable devel-
opment becomes trustworthy in relation to workplace safety and health improvement. However, the
researchers’ findings have drawback in considering existing three pillars. Previous researches neglected
to incorporate the other three pillars of sustainable development which are culture, political and techno-
logical factors. Having these pillars, sustainable development can also be guaranteed by considering
workplace safety and health innovation for all internal and external entities engage at work. This is
because of the implementation the pillars reduce the working environment accidents and disease.
Hence, this research focuses on the workplace safety & health innovation, introducing new pillars for sus-
tainable development, their impact on sustainable developments and indicating the three pillars future
research areas. Methods like literature review, interviewing employees and observation of industries
were used. There were few researches found on how sustainable development affected by workplace
safety and health innovation approaches. However, this literature more focused on the relationship work-
place innovation and sustainable development share in common. The other finding in this study showed
that the innovation of workplace safety and health brings sustainable development through healthy peo-
ple, safer workplace, reduced cost of accidents, controlled environment, managed workplace accidents
and improved workplace safety knowledge. The researchers have also attempted to forward roads toward
sustainable development through occupational safety and health innovation and improvement
approaches.
Ó 2016 Karabuk University. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC
BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
1. Introduction
Modern economies are driven by agriculture, manufacturing
and service industries. Regardless of the governing factors, national
economic growth and development on the basis of weak Occupa-
tional Safety and Health (OSH) regulatory regime is an invitation
for accident [30]. Yesterday, occupational safety and health was
not the concern of all parties. But, nowadays, health and safety is
becoming the key issues of global worries. In many studies, effec-
tive management of occupational safety and health found to play a
pivotal role in running a successful business [21]. The global issue
for sustainable development of the citizen is the health and safe
working groups at their workplace. In order to achieve this, one
of them is the development of sustainable occupational safety
and health environments.
Having this challenges, it is mandatory to answer the questions
how workplace safety and health innovation results in sustainable
development of citizens and forward the roads toward sustainable
development in industrial occupational safety hand health. The
dynamism of socio-economic development has brought change
on all aspects of the expansion. Dynamical change on workplace
health and safety innovation, high prevalence of occupational dis-
eases and accidents registration are the initial factors of sustain-
able development. The existence of occupational safety and
health problems is adding level of poverty onto existing burden
of the society. There is a strong Malthusian movement which
maintains that continued economic growth will disturb the bal-
ance of nature, and will eventually lead to ecological catastrophes
[34]. This imbalance between innovation and development tends
to result in failure in sustainable developments.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jestch.2016.10.011
2215-0986/Ó 2016 Karabuk University. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
⇑ Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: jkassu@gmail.com (K. Jilcha), danielkitaw@yahoo.com
(D. Kitaw).
Peer review under responsibility of Karabuk University.
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2. As Zohreh and Napsiah [33] wrote in their research findings in
summarizing that sustainable development and occupational
safety, health, and environment are the two controversial concepts
which have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent
years. They argue that sustainable development cannot be thought
without considering environment, society, economy and their
working condition.
Hence, this research has attempted to asses OSH innovation in
relation to sustainable development variables and their impact
on each other. The other approach used is from the interview
and observation made in some of Ethiopian manufacturing indus-
tries. The researcher used semi-structured interview question to
justify the how industrial occupational safety and health innova-
tion affects sustainable development of socio-economy. The result
obtained showed us that workplace safety and health innovation
has not been considered as a key driver of sustainable develop-
ment. The companies have less consciousness about these issues.
As it has been discussed in literature review, most of the compa-
nies’ focus on productivity improvement, technological build up
and profit maximization of the industries than workplace safety
and health innovation. This approach results in indifference of
workplace safety, health and environment for sustainable develop-
ment. Hence, this research attempted to show how workplace
safety and health innovation results in sustainable development
of the socio-economy. The researchers also forwarded a way how
to relate OSH and sustainable development. The future research
areas recommended from the gaps identified. The remaining sec-
tions in this research includes literature review, methodology of
data organization, result & discussion, concluding remarks and
future research areas recommended.
2. Literature review
2.1. Occupational safety and health
Occupational safety and health are controversial issues which
are most significant in succeeding in industrial development. The
German philosopher (1788–1860), Schopenhauer, emphasized on
the importance of health by stating that ‘‘health is not everything,
but without health, everything is nothing [17]. Therefore the
specific definition of health, safety and the integration of the two
can be seen as occupational health and safety is a holistic approach
towards total wellbeing of the employee at work [5]. According to
WHO [32] occupational health includes the actions for occupa-
tional medicine, occupational hygiene, occupational psychology,
safety, physiotherapy, ergonomics, rehabilitation, etc. Safety on
the other side involves the protection of people from physical
injury [37]. The International Occupational Hygiene Association
(IOHA) generally defines occupational health and safety (OHS) as
the science of anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of
hazards arising in or from the workplace that could impair the
health and well-being of workers, taking into account the possible
impact on the surrounding communities and the general environ-
ment [18]. Thus, OHS can be seen to concern the promotion and
maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social
well-being of workers in all occupations [20].
As discussed by Amponsah-Tawiah occupational health and
safety matters are particularly critical in the developing world
especially Africa and Asia. Africa is especially beleaguered with
unsafe working conditions in industries such as mining, construc-
tion, manufacturing and even service. Alli [12] describes that Africa
and Asia have most unsafe practice and conditions in management
of children labor, employment, informal economy, gender main-
streaming, labor statistics, labor inspection and maritime safety,
HIV/AIDS and the world of work and international migration.
Migration especially from Africa to Europe is one which indicates
that the existence of unsafe and sustainable workplace safety
and health. People are crossing boarders to Europe due to the
workplace and living area unsafe for all kinds of activities. Unsus-
tainable development comes from uncomfortable working condi-
tions or low economic status otherwise due to instable political
condition.
Estimating the economic cost of occupational injuries and ill-
nesses is another issue of workplace accident and disease. In addi-
tion to immeasurable human suffering, these fatalities and ill
health cause major economic losses for enterprises and societies
as a whole, including lost productivity and reduced work capacity
[3]. This study has compiled that an estimated that around 4% of
the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is lost due to various
direct and indirect costs, including compensation, medical
expenses, property damage, lost earnings and replacement training
(ILO, 2003, 2012 cited in [3]).
It is much more widely recognized today that occupational acci-
dents and diseases can have a major impact on the productivity,
competitiveness, reputation of individual enterprises, livelihoods
of individuals and their families. Moreover, at the national level,
occupational accidents and ill health can cause an intolerable
humanitarian and economic burden, damaging any reputation for
good business and negatively impacting sustainable economic
growth. In short, prevention pays [3]. This indicates that relevant
high-burden non-communicable diseases are getting increased
than communicable disease in which these are from occupational
burdens globally. These non-communicable disease results in defi-
ciency of sustainable development of the citizen, especially for
developing countries, it draws backward from sustainable develop-
ment movement.
2.2. Sustainable development
Sustainable development is the optimum use of resources in all
respects. The Rio Summit [32] and Gilding et al. [8] in its declara-
tion defined sustainable development comprehensively as strategy
to meet the needs of the present world population without causing
adverse effect on health and on the environment, and without
depleting or endangering the global resource base, hence without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
The new strategy outlined by the World Conservation Union,
Caring for the Earth, defines sustainable development as
‘‘improving the quality of human life while living within the
carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems” (18). This report
focuses on sustainable development as a process requiring simul-
taneous global progress in a variety of dimensions: economic,
human, environmental, and technological.
Thus, sustainable development appears that gains marked in
green technology and sustainable development stands the risk of
being offset by costs of occupational health and safety, diseases
and hazards [5]. Sustainable development from the definition
should focuses on the present and future generation needs center-
ing the human health and environmental protection as a base line
of the development. It does not compromise the present and the
future world changing generation health and needs so that produc-
tive life and needs of the generation kept well. In traditional view,
sustainable development was seen as interlocking of three pillars
economic development, social development, and environmental
protection overlooking emerging dimensions of sustainable devel-
opments [22,5].
The sustainable development strategy of an organization is not
only reflected in the increase in the production value of the organi-
zation, but should be evaluated together with other aspects such as
economic effectiveness, utilization of resources, occupational
health and safety, and environmental protection [1]. In this
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3. research the writer says that economic effectiveness and OSH are
the inseparable variables. Hence, the overlooked dimensions in
sustainable development are cultural, political and technological
changes.
2.3. Workplace and innovation
Workplace innovation (WPI) brings radical change in the work-
ers’ environment, thereby enhancing the profitability of companies
[21]. However, most research and discussion of innovations are
focused on product development and/or process improvement, dis-
regarding workplace and service innovation [21].
The term workplace innovation refers to how people are
deployed in order to improve performance and also to create good
quality jobs [14]. The definition of workplace innovation (WPI) is
taken from Pot [23] as the implementation of new and combined
interventions in the fields of work organization, human resource
management and supportive technologies. It is complementary to
technological innovation even though it was unnoticed as being a
basic workplace environment comfort forming process. Pot and
Karolus Kraan [25] and Pot [23] described workplace innovation
as new or plain innovation and as combined interventions or a
bundle of measures referring to work organization, human
resource management and supportive technologies which is a
commonly used definition and widely accepted. WPI is important
because of its social, economic and labor market impact, which is
now being widely acknowledged among many European policy-
makers [29]. The term innovation is defined by Pot [23] as renewal
and by Totterdill [29] as a change leading to workplace improve-
ment. Renewal/change is to make alteration, transformation or
modification on the existing system to fit the current state-of-
the-art [21]. They concluded the researchers’ discussion that the
outcomes converge to the same concluding central idea which car-
ries the term improvement.
Eeckelaert and Steven Dhondt [15] also conceived social inno-
vation as a means to combat both social and societal challenges
such as financial and economic crises, unemployment, participa-
tion, social cohesion, and climate change, and to increase innova-
tion, productivity and growth. These all factors improvement
have major contributions to the global sustainable development.
Empirical findings suggest that technological innovation
accounts for 25% of the success in radical innovation, whereas
workplace innovation accounts for 75% of success (Volberda Van-
den Bosch, and Jansen, 2006 cited in [24]; Jansen et al., 2011 cited
in [25]). However, with such evidence of the impact of WPI on per-
formance results, it remains remarkable that so few companies are
investing in WPI. Therefore, more focus on WPI practice and
investing knowledge and finance to see the impact it has on
improving productivity levels is needed. Thus, WPI results in ‘‘ac-
tive work situations” where in workplaces and jobs, workers have
sufficient autonomy to control their work demands combined with
a more discretionary capacity for learning and problem-solving
[21]. WPI is also related to the development and implementation
of coherent interventions in the areas of work organization, control
structure and employability of staff [14].
Eeckelaert et al. [15] in their study also showed that WPI areas
dealt with the design of the organization, the design of manage-
ment tasks, and the design of jobs with the objective of simultane-
ous improvement of organizational performance and quality of
working life. It therefore affects not only the internal functions of
an organization (work organization, labor relations) but also the
external functions (network relations), and in turn WPIs will be
affected by environmental flux [15]. It does not cover the whole
range of occupational safety and health (OSH) topics and OSH per-
formance, but it does include low stress risks, high job autonomy,
lower physical workload, continuous development of competences
and better labor relations [24,31,26]. In general innovation and
workplace innovation gives mandate to the sustainable develop-
ment of the citizen in any means.
2.4. Links between occupational safety & health innovation and
sustainable development
Occupational health & safety innovation and sustainable
development can be approached from varying perspectives.
Existing literature review has mentioned a lot on the occupational
safety and health (see for instance Joan Burton [2], ILO, 2010,
[7,36,11,16,27,10]). However, the relationship between occupa-
tional safety and health with sustainable development has got lit-
tle research priority. Currently, the workplace safety and health
impact on sustainable development for developing economy has
no significant implication as the industries are not well developed.
As described by Alli, workplace being unsafe and unhealthy means
sustainable development cannot be achieved as the employment
rate decreases and by the reverse migration increases in develop-
ing economies.
The interface between OSH and sustainable development as
indicated in Fig 1 of three P’s (people, planet and profit) are
strongly infused entities for the improvement of OSH and sustain-
able development of the citizen. When we speak about people or
society we are talking about their health, safety, and sustainable
development. In similar fashion in discussing about planet (envi-
ronment), we are discussing the sustainable green economy and
green environment were the living place, and working environ-
ment is comfortable for the people. Lastly when we are discussing
about profit (economy), we are talking about the result of saved
poele and controlled environment (planet) which results in sus-
tainable development. Thus, these three pillars are the interfused
for the improvement of OSH and sustainable development.
Firms cannot be considered as optimizing profitability without
significant occupational health and safety related to diseases, acci-
dents, hazards, working environment and people improvement
scheme.
Globally, costs of occupational health and safety diseases have
been on the increase. Global financial losses due to workplace inju-
ries and ill health exceed $1250 billion [38]. By conservative esti-
mates workers suffer 270 million occupational accidents and 160
million occupational diseases each year [19]. Occupational injuries
alone account for more than 10 million Disability-Adjusted Life
Years (DALYs) lost, or healthy years of life lost whether to disability
or premature death, and 8% of unintentional injuries worldwide
[35]. Poor occupational health and reduced working capacity of
workers may cause economic loss up to 10–20% of the Gross
National Product of a country [32]. Globally occupational deaths,
diseases, and illnesses account for an estimated loss of 4% of the
Gross Domestic Product [28]. These changes are hindrance of
development especially for African and Asian. As discussed work-
place accidents and diseases costs accounts for 10–20% of the
GDP of the nation.
Fig. 1. OHS sustainable development interface [5,13].
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4. As indicated in Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of the rela-
tionships between occupational safety, health, and environment,
and sustainability. This figure illustrates that working condition
would influence the sustainability triple bottom line and it would
be also affected by the company’s policy towards sustainable
development.
Hence, without improving or innovating workplace safety and
health, occupational accidents, disease and costs will not be
reduced. Without considering our planet green economy work-
place safety and health challenges cannot come to an end. If these
two are not controlled, profit is only imagination and thereby sus-
tainable development is unexpected. Hence, sustainable develop-
ment is an integration of all the three P’s.
3. Methodology
This study was conducted using the methodology of desk
review considering data sources from international journals
related to occupational safety, occupational health, innovation
and sustainable development as well as the link exists between
occupational safety, health, environment and sustainable develop-
ment. It also utilized websites source from Wikipedia, reports,
discussions and other magazines. The desk review method was
organized based on data sources from OSH researches finding in
developing countries, research finding from sustainable
development prospective, from studies showing linkage between
occupational safeties and innovation related to sustainable
developments, and cost of accidents from different research
databases.
The other primary data sources were obtained from eighteen
manufacturing industries of Ethiopia through interview and dis-
cussion. Individual and group discussions were conducted on the
OSH related problems, OSH accidents and disease, impact on pro-
ductivity, impact on firm costs, OSH innovation, sustainable devel-
opment lagers due to OSH and workplace innovation impact on
sustainable development and workplace safety improve. The inter-
view was conducted based on some important factors the
researcher considered important for this paper (Table 1). The inter-
view and data collection was held from March 10, 2016 to April 25,
2016 for the purpose of the principal Author dissertation. There
were some interview questions related to this research aim and
they were drawn out from the interview elements. These have
been reorganized and presented in Table 1:
More than fifteen questions were asked and eight of them were
found weighing more. In Table 1 semi-structured interviews
indicates that multi response were allowed for the interviewee to
express their opinion freely on all issues. The interview was
conducted on only 18 companies from leather, steel, chemical, tex-
tile and wood work industries due to high contribution to employ-
ment and priority areas of government second growth
transformation plan hubs in Ethiopia. The interview question type
was yes or no type for the semi structure questions. Where there is
need for open-end question, the question were extended to the
next response seeking.
In addition to this primary data collection, field survey/observa-
tion was conducted. This observation helped the researchers to tri-
angulate the responses those obtained from interview and manual
of the companies.
Table 1
Interview response numbers and their percentage share.
Codes Question items Number of respondents
said (yes)
Percentage Number of respondents
said (No)
Percentage
WPIE Is there workplace innovation experience in the company? 1 5.56% 17 94.44%
OSHK Do your company have Occupational safety and health knowledge? 2 11.11% 16 88.89%
OSHISD Do you think OSH improvement result in sustainable development? 10 55.56% 6 33.33%
WPISD Do you think workplace innovation is a key to sustainable
development?
17 94.44% 1 5.56%
TMCIWI Do top management commitment improves workplace and
innovation?
15 83.33% 3 16.67%
SDASHRM Do you think sustainable development comes when OSH risk
minimized?
17 94.44% 1 5.56%
QLIRWH Do you think quality of life improved in reducing workplace hazards? 15 83.33% 3 16.67%
WPIRCI Do you think workplace innovation reduces cost of injuries? 16 88.89% 2 11.11%
AFDIRWP Do you think annual forum discussion bring innovative ideas and
reduce workplace problems?
17 94.44% 1 5.56%
Fig. 2. Occupational safety, health & environment and sustainable development linkage [33].
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5. 4. Result and discussion
Previous studies conducted on OSH link with sustainable devel-
opment showed that there are three pillars of sustainable develop-
ment as economic, environment and society. However, they missed
the other three basic elements such as culture, technology and pol-
itics which improves the OSH and sustainable development. These,
in turn, give a sign of linkage to working environment and health
within the basic pillars. As a result of this inconsideration of
researchers, in this research the new approaches of sustainable
development were introduced. The case study also utilized to see
the current effects of the pillars and OSH to sustainable
development.
Researchers’ literature discussion proved that how OSH igno-
rance creates injury cost, accidents and disease on the employees.
In turn, it contributes to weak development of the economy. It
can be inferred from the previous discussions and definitions of
sustainability and occupational safety, health, and environment
that they are attempting to reach the same goal through different
processes. As it is shown in Fig. 2, working in safe and healthy con-
ditions enhances the employees’ performance, increases their moti-
vation and effectiveness, raises the business productivity, and
consequently improves the quality of the product as well as reduces
its costs and increases the sales and revenue in the long term. The
quality of the products produced in a firm influences people’s
health in the society and significantly affects the environment in
which people works and lives [9,22]. However, as the studies
recently shown us that culture, politics and technology are the
modern world’s elements of sustainable development and occupa-
tional safety and health.
The Interaction between people, planet and profit which are the
so called the three pillar dimensions of sustainable development
were discussed in different literatures. However, in this modern
and dynamically changing world, they overlooked the three pillars
which are political, technological and cultural issues (refer to
Fig. 5). Amponsah-Tawiah [5] and Garetti and Taisch [22] discussed
about sustainable development dimensions and OSH improvement
approaches. But both of them unnoticed the influence of culture,
politics and technology. When there is a good and positive culture,
there is a good social mottoes in which all the people are devoted
to participate in the sustainable development through improving
all the contributing factors. Similarly, with good and confident,
stable and self-sustained political policy, people are stable and sys-
tems are leading toward the development roads.
As shown in Fig. 3(a) occupational safety, health, and environ-
ment approach primarily addresses the employees while that of
Fig. 3(b) addresses the environment [33]. Sustainable develop-
ment, in other hand aims at preserving the natural resources for
the future generations while the present generation’s needs and
the societies’ requirements are being considered. Both OSH and
sustainable development have the four elements in common for
firm profitability conditions [22,33]. These researcher add
(a) (b)
Fig. 3. (a) The approach of occupational safety, health, and environment; (b) the approach of sustainable development [22,33].
Fig. 4. Interview questions response in percentage (codes are in Table 1).
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6. employee as one pillar and the other consider the three once only.
They did not consider politics, technology and culture.
4.1. A case study
To elaborate the overall discussion, the researchers considered a
case studies on eighteen manufacturing companies. The interview
and field observation were conducted. Interview questions were
prepared and responses obtained. The companies are negligent
for workplace safety, health, environment, workplace innovations,
workplace injury costs and sustainable development.
A number of respondents’ age lies between 20 and 30 years.
These means the employees working in this companies are in pro-
ductive age and if they face accidents, they are costly to the econ-
omy of the citizen. They have recommendable job experience so
that we can consider them enough matured to give reliable data.
Almost, all companies’ employees were complaints that the
companies are not giving them personal protective device, upgrad-
ing training, job manuals, and other privileges related to work-
place. Many of them replied that the companies are focusing on
the productivity improvement, profit maximization, and getting
more money. But these could not be attained without improving
the workplace environment, carrying for the safety and health of
employees and focusing on occupational accidents and disease
minimization. Reduction of problems cannot be achieved without
the involvement of employees and the company owners/managers.
In their response, most of the interviewee said that if one raise
safety and health issue, the companies’ owner prefer to fire and
hire new once. They do not consider firing and hiring has cost to
the company. They do this because of the availability of human
resources in Ethiopia.
The quote of Schopenhauer answer for this thought of the com-
panies which is stating that ‘‘health is not everything, but without
health, everything is nothing [17]. We can understand from this
that health and safety are preliminary issue of the sustainable
development. Alli [12] also describes that Africa and Asia have
most unsafe practice and conditions in management of children
labor, employment, informal economy, gender mainstreaming,
labor statistics, labor inspection and maritime safety, HIV/AIDS
and the world of work and international migration. Without safe
and healthy workplace, sustainable development cannot be
expected as we can see from this researcher’s attest.
Fig. 4 shows that the interview response as ‘‘yes” or ‘‘no” have
been obtained on workplace innovation experience. The response
obtained from the interviewee with ‘‘yes” has been indicated in
bracket and the remaining is for ‘‘no”. The response on workplace
innovation experience (5.56%), employees have Occupational
safety and health knowledge (11.11%), OSH improvement resulting
in sustainable development (55.56%), workplace innovation is a
key to sustainable development (94.44%), top management com-
mitment improves workplace and innovative (83.33%), sustainable
development comes when OSH risk minimized (94.44%), quality of
life improved in reducing workplace hazards (83.33%), workplace
innovation reduces cost of injuries (88.89%) and forum discussions
(94.44%) were obtained on these issues. Unfortunately, the compa-
nies taken for the sample did not interesting intention toward the
employees’ health and safety. The employees are working for the
survival of their families and the employers are working for profit
maximization. These do not create any common targets toward
inclusive development of the society.
There is a missing point where both employees and employers
are not working for inclusive sustainable development. These
could not be initiative compromising working environment and
pillars of OSH and sustainable development.
The above discussion can correlate with other researchers find-
ing point of view. Totterdill [29] defined innovation as a change
leading to workplace improvement. This study tells that innova-
tion support improvement of workplace environment through con-
tinuous improvement tools so that the working environment
becomes comfortable. Hence, the sustainable development of a cit-
izen accelerated due to reduction of workplace accident, disease
and injury costs. Sustainable workplace environment means sus-
tainable development for any country. From Eeckelaert et al. [15]
also we can learn that such as financial and economic crises, unem-
ployment, participation, social cohesion, and climate change, and
to increase innovation, productivity and growth through societal
innovation is a key for the sustainable development. Without these
parameter sustainability, in the case companies no sustainable
development of inclusive change of citizen. As discussed by Pot e
al. [24], Ramstad [26], Westgaard and Winkel [31]; WPI includes
low stress risks, high job autonomy, lower physical workload, con-
tinuous development of competences and better labor relations
which results in sustainable development stability of a country.
From the case companies, the researchers attempted to triangulate
the theory with observation and developed a correlation among
factors indicated in Table 2.
Table 2 as organized by the Authors from the literature summery
and interview discussion points, it shows that improving workplace
safety and health management elements can improve workplace
innovation and makes to reach the goals of sustainable develop-
ment. Occupational safety and health improvement or accident
causes related factors such as Personal protective equipment, job
systems, personal characteristics, occupational accidents/injuries,
occupational diseases, occupational injuries cost, occupational
environment (external-internal), society, government, stakehold-
ers/employers, employee participation, work culture, management
culture/system, and family/individual are correlated with work-
place innovation and sustainable development.
As Alli tried to summarize workplace being unsafe and
unhealthy means sustainable development cannot be achieved as
the employment rate decreases and by the reverse migration
increases in developing economies. As a result of this finding, com-
panies must understand that healthy employee are wealthy and
profit for the company. Hence, companies should turn their face
Economy Society Politics
Occupational safety, health and environmental Approaches
Sustainable development approaches
culture EnvironmentEmployee technology
Fig. 5. OSHE and sustainable development approaches element improvement.
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7. from traditional thought such as productivity and profit maximiza-
tion scheme to modern thought such as keeping employee health
and working environmental leads to greening the economy is a
profit and wealth.
4.2. Results and new approaches
Occupational health is considered by this orientation to be at
the center of sustainable development [33]. Generally, WHO [7,6]
identified safe workplaces and healthy workers as the prerequi-
sites for productivity and social, economic, and sustainable devel-
opment. Amponsah-Tawiah [5] has indicated that the enterprises
with the best occupational safety and health practices are the most
productive and the most economic, social, and environmentally
friendly businesses. According to BHPbilliton [4], sustainable
development is an indispensable part of occupational safety,
health, environment, and community, and aims at propelling con-
stant improvement in performance.
The Fig. 5 shows an improved approaches of workplace safety,
health environment and sustainable development.
As previous studies debated that the approach to occupational
safety, health and environment primary focus on employees, econ-
omy, society and environment respectively. Here, the authors
attempted to include technology after employee, culture next to
society and political issue before environmental consideration
(see Fig. 5). Technology is one of the state-of-the- art to improve
working conditions and get priority. There by optimization of
economy and social standards improvement become a priority.
Even though society life is to be improved, the culture of the soci-
ety should be reconsidered while improving the working environ-
ment and health. Culture vary (culture is dynamics) from society to
society and need the consideration of social culture when
improving the working environment. To improve and control
environment the other issue that has not been considered in the
researches was political issues. Considering those all issues and
ignoring political strength leads to weak sustainable development.
Hence, Fig. 5 shows the modifications of the approaches men-
tioned by Garetti and Taisch [22], Molamohamadi and Ismail [33]
in Fig 3, and Fig. 6 the modification of three pillars Garetti and
Taisch [22], Molamohamadi and Ismail [33] in Fig 1 to enhance
sustainable development through those pillars.
As indicated in Fig 6, the six bottom line for sustainable devel-
opment were derived from the three sustainable developments pil-
lars. In this research technology, culture and working environment
(politics) were introduced as new parameters for sustainable
development.
Therefore, in other hand, providing the workers’ safety and
health infrastructure drives the nation for social, economic, politi-
cal and environmental sustainability development. Shorn of
healthy workers, safe working places, the environment and the
society satisfaction, it cannot be expected to development. In
another words, unhealthy employees in unsafe environmental
working conditions cannot have the maximum productivity and
efficiency. As a result, the organization would experience financial
crisis which in turn brings difficult economic sustainable condi-
tions for workers and the stakeholders, including customers, share-
holders, and the society. Moreover, workers’ injuries and property
damages are not only do increase the company’s costs, including
medical expenses, operational costs, and compensations to the
society and individuals, but also destroy its business reputation
and decreases its market share [33]. This, in turn, undermines
the employee morale and motivation, adversely affects the quality
of the products, and results in organization’s unavoidable disap-
pearance from the market. Consequently, the occupational safety
and health programs directly address the employees, while indi-
rectly affect the society, technology, innovation, culture, economy,
politics and environment in the long term. On the other hand,
without social and economic sustainability, safety and health
would not be successfully managed and guaranteed. Society having
Table 2
Relationship among workplace safety and health factor, workplace innovation and sustainable development.
s/n OSH related factors Influence of Workplace innovation Effect on sustainable development
1 Personal protective
equipment
Enforce employees to use properly Use of PPE reduces productive labor force injuries which leads to
sustainable development
2 Job systems Makes job and job characteristics easy and simple to both
employees and managements
When job system improved, sustainable development is secured
3 Personal
characteristics
Improve the personal behaviors and increase the workplace
satisfaction
When all employees and employers behavior focus to changes,
sustainable development will emerge
4 Occupational
accidents/injuries
Decreases the number of fatality, disability and injuries Upon reducing occupational injuries, costs and property damages
secured and leads to sustainable development
5 Occupational
diseases
Decrease prevalence of occupational diseases due to accident
causing factors innovations
Disease resulted due to occupational accident reduced means
sustainable development of the citizen granted
6 Occupational
injuries cost
Decrease the occupational costs through reduction in
accidents and disease
When injury costs reduced, health and economic failure reduce, hence
sustainable development is improved
7 Occupational
environment
(external-internal)
Improves both internal and external environment that results
in failure to meet the compliance
When both external and internal environment gets green, sustainable
development results
8 Society Life of the society and standard of the society increases and
society decreases environmental degradation results in
unsafe workplace
Upon society thought development, sustainability increases. One of the
driver of sustainable development is society, hence change culture and
development
9 Government Drives government to engage in the policy making decision
and resource allocation
Play a great role for the sustainable development while supporting the
working environment safety and health
10 Stakeholders/
employers
Changes their attitude from productivity and profitability
based attitude to workplace innovation
Sustainable development comes when stakeholders/employers come
out of the box
11 Employee
participation
Increases the employee to participate in workplace accidents
prevention and hazard control with confidential
communication
In every industries, enthusiastic and sense of owner participation of
employee bring sustainable development in improving workplace
safety and health
12 Work culture Improve and makes systematic approach of working process
change with change in system
Upon improving working culture of the industries, sustainable
development is assured
13 Management
culture/system
Leads to innovative workplace and confidential management
decision making, help to approached employee properly
Top to lower management commitment to the workplace innovation
and improvement leads to sustainable development of citizen/society
14 Family/individual Safe the individual safety and health hence the family does
not suffer from accidents
Safed and healthies family/individual creates combined energy to ward
sustainable development
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8. economic problems cannot be mentally and physically healthy
employees at work. Besides, lack of economy and its inconsistency
may lead to lack of motivation and affect workers’ effectiveness
and productivity effort. Environment, culture and technology also
influence the workers’ health and their productivity at work. This
is mainly because the company or the organization is a part and
territory of the society and whatever affects one, directly or indi-
rectly impacts the other.
In general, industrial workplace safety and health innovation
results in sustainable development in improving the following
basic areas. They performances in minimizing workplace accidents,
reducing workplace diseases, deducing cost of injuries, developing
sustainable workplace safety and health management systems,
creating responsibility to all corporate participants, opening room
to employees participation and creating smooth flow of communi-
cation in all directions, research based development and experi-
ence sharing, focusing on culture, technology, politics, economics,
employees, social and environment.
5. Conclusion and recommendation
In conclusion, this study has attempted to see the industrial
occupational safety and health innovation effect on the sustainable
development. In literatures many researchers had attempted to
show the link between safety, health, environment and sustainable
development. This research targeted and focused on the impact of
OSH and sustainable development in conjugation of pillars. The pil-
lars previously considered were sees as economic, social and envi-
ronmental for sustainable development. However, sustainability
cannot be thought in a box without the consideration of workplace
safety and health improvement, reduction of occupational acci-
dents and disease, workplace innovation, people safety and con-
trolling environment. Profit and sustainable development are
interlocking parameters if and only if the working environment,
society and culture are considered key elements for the sustainable
development.
The most three pillars of developments have elaborated and the
three were found as gaps of the studies. It has been attempted to
introduce culture, technology and politics to the bottom lines of
the existing triple pillars. This makes strong interconnection of
the six pillars for sustainable development.
The study also took eighteen Ethiopian case companies using
interview questions and field observation. It supported to triangu-
late the literatures and the stand point of the researchers to reca-
pitulate how the manufacturing industries employees and
managements understand the workplace innovation, sustainable
development, workplace safety & health situations, and workplace
cost reduction and forum discussion. Form the result it was
obtained that 94% of the respondents resulted in there is no work-
place innovation experience, 89% of the respondents gave response
in no workplace safety and health knowledge (training), and 33% of
the respondent response show that OSH improvement does not
result in sustainable development. In contradiction, even though
there is no such involvements in the companies, more than 84%
of the respondents believe that workplace innovation is important
for injury reduction, cost reduction, sustainable development and
top management commitment and forum discussions take this
share of the response rate. Most of the response indicated that
workplace innovation is one element for the sustainable develop-
ment but their companies did not exercise these elements for the
improving of the organization.
In general, recommendation are drawn-out from the discus-
sions above on some sort of ideas for further research areas.
Researchers can go further on economic effectiveness and OSH
interrelation and inseparability; short-term and long-term bene-
fits, partial and the overall benefits of workplace innovation and
sustainable pillars; a new production management style and work-
place safety and health improvement systems to utilize effectively
renewable resources including human resources, and people to
learn to value and protect themselves. Finally, on the effects and
long term impacts of culture, technology and politics have all sus-
tainable developments pillars in relation to workplace safety and
health.
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